Bedstead-fastening



'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEO. BURKET, OF OROGHN, OHIO.

BEDSTEAD-FASTENING.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 20,478, dated June 8, 1858.

T o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE BURKET, of Croghan, in the county of Allenand State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBedstead-Fastenings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description thereof and of the difference between myinvention and that which has heretofore been done, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, inwhich- Figure l, is a vertical section through one of the bed posts.Fig. 2, is a horizontal section through the same. Fig. 3, is a ver ticaltransverse section through the bed post.

Similar letters of reference where they occur in the separate figures,denote like parts of the bedstead and fastening in all of them.

I am aware that, a single pin, has been passed through the round mortiseof a bed v post over which a split sectional screw thread on the railcatches, to form the fastening; and that a double or single headed boltshaped pin has been attached to the rail, which enters an eccentricslot, in the plate or socket in the post; but in these, as well as inall others which I have seen, the male and female part ofthe castings,are of different form, and one or both are cast. Besides, when eitherpart of such a. fastening gets broken, or becomes loose, it is notpossible to repair it without a duplicate piece, or sending it to amechanic in that line of business.

In my fastening, I use no cast pieces at all, or need not use them. Myentire fastening is made of straight pieces of round rods or heavy wire,and are so inserted through the tenonfand mortise, as that when thesingle one is passed through between the pair in the mortise, andslightly turned around, they shall catch and firmly hold against eachother, forming a very cheap, durable, and efficient fastening.

My invention consists in a bedstead fastening composed of a straightmetallic pin passed at right angles through the tenon on the rail, andof two metallic pins passed obliquely through the mortise in differentdirections-one being at or near the bottom, and the other at or near thetop of the mortise, so that when the pin on the tenon or rail, is passedthrough between the two pins in the mortise, and the rail then slightlyturned around the fastening shall be complete.

TO enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to de scribe the same with reference to the drawings.

A, represents the bedl rail, which has a round tenon B, formed at eachof its ends; and O, represents one of t-he bed posts, which is furnishedwith a round mortise D, one for each end of the side and end rails thatare to be united to it. These posts and rails may be of any ordinarykind.

To unite the rail and post, by my plan, I proceed as follows: I takeround iron rods, such as are found in the market, and of about l; or'gths of an inch in diameter, or of greater diameter for heavier orwider bedsteads, and having cut up the rod into suitable lengths fortheir separate purposes, I bore a hole through the tenon B, parallel tothe shoulder on the rail, and drive the metal pin t into said hole, sothat it shall be firm, and project at each of its ends a suitabledistance from the tenon. I then bore two oblique holes through thepostone at the upper, and the other at the lower side of the mortiseD-the Obliquity of said holes being in opposite directions. Into theseholes I drive a metallic pin o like that through the rail, said pinseach showing about the diemnsions of their full diameters in saidmortise. This completes the fastening. To put the rail and posttogether, pass the pin a, into the mortise, and between the pins I), b,until it is behind said latter pins, then turn the rail slightly around.The brings the projecting ends of the pin a, against the oblique pins b,b, and forms a perfect lock. When the bedstead is corded, or the saggingbottom put on, it is then perfectly rigid.

This fastening is certainly more simple, and cheaper, and much moreeasily repaired than any of which I have knowledge.

Having thus fully described the nature,

object, and construction, of my bedstead oblique pins through themortse, as herein fastening, and the difference between it, and setforth and represented.

those most nearl a roachn it what I claim therein as nevpahd desireg tosecure by GEORGE BURKET' H 5 Letters Patent is; Witnesses:

Forming a bedstead fastening by a ISAAC H. TURNER, straight pin throughthe tenen,y and tWo GEORGE W. GABLE.

